How to Blur Confluence During Screen Sharing (Hide Internal Wiki Pages, Spaces & Secrets)
Presenting from your team's Confluence wiki? Here's how to blur the page tree, space and project names, sensitive page content and credentials pasted into pages before you share your screen.
To hide internal wiki pages in Confluence when screen sharing, blur the page tree in the sidebar and the sensitive parts of the page content before you present — BlurFirst paints the blur into the tab as real pixels, so space names, project titles, strategy docs and anything sensitive pasted into a page stay hidden across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Loom and any recorder. Confluence runs in your browser, so a browser extension can reach it, and it has no client-safe or presenter view of its own.
Because the blur is baked into the page as real pixels, there's no unblurred copy for a recorder or a screenshot to catch. Nothing you blur leaves the browser — the only network request is a license check. Here's what to hide in Confluence, and how.
What Confluence exposes when you share
- The page tree (left sidebar) — the space name plus the nested page titles, which name projects, initiatives and plans: "2027 Roadmap", "Project Titan", "Q1 Reorg", "Pricing changes".
- Page content — strategy, financials and roadmaps, and — in practice — the credentials people paste into pages: passwords, API keys, tokens and database connection strings. It's bad practice, but it's common, and it lands on your screen.
- @mentions — the names of teammates tagged in the page body.
- Comments — inline and page-level comments, with author names and avatars.
- Space names and the space directory — a list of every space reveals teams, clients and confidential workstreams.
- Search — the results dropdown surfaces page titles and content snippets from across the whole wiki as you type.
- Recent and starred pages — the shortcuts that expose what you've been working on.
How to blur Confluence before a screen share
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Share the single Confluence tab
Present only the Confluence tab — keep Jira, email and other tabs out of the feed.
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Start BlurFirst
Open the page you'll present and press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y to bring up the control bar.
- 3
Box-blur the sidebar page tree
Drag a rectangle over the left sidebar so the space name and every page title in the tree are frosted. The region stays anchored as the tree scrolls and expands.
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Blur sensitive sections of the page
Box-blur a financial table, a strategy paragraph or a code block that holds a pasted secret; or element-click a single macro or table cell. Click again to reveal only what you're actually presenting.
- 5
Scan for keys and emails (Pro)
One local Scan finds and blurs API keys, tokens, emails and phone numbers on the page — worth running on any page where someone might have pasted a credential.
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Keep the panic shortcut ready
Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H to blur the whole page instantly if the search dropdown or a wrong page surfaces something it shouldn't.
| Confluence element | Best gesture | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Sidebar page tree (space + titles) | Box/region blur | Anchored to the sidebar, and re-applies via a saved profile each visit |
| A financial table or strategy section | Box or element blur | Hide the section while the rest of the page stays readable |
| A pasted API key, token or password | Scan (Pro) | Detects key and token patterns locally and blurs them in one click |
| @mentions and comment authors | Element blur | Frosts the name without hiding the surrounding text |
| Search dropdown / wrong page | Panic (Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H) | Blurs everything instantly, then toggle back |
Why blurring beats Confluence page restrictions
Page restrictions and space permissions control what the logged-in user can open. During a screen share, the logged-in user is *you* — so anything you're allowed to read is exactly what your audience sees. Those controls were never designed to manage what a viewer of your screen can read. Blurring works at the presentation layer: it controls what the viewer sees, regardless of your own access, and it covers the sidebar and the search dropdown too, which restrictions don't touch.
One honest limitation
BlurFirst works on Confluence in the browser — that covers both Confluence Cloud (your-site.atlassian.net/wiki) and a self-hosted Data Center instance, since both render in a tab. It only affects the browser tab, so share a single tab rather than your whole screen. Scan detects patterns like API keys, tokens and emails, not free-text page titles or project names — blur those with box or element blur. A desktop app that covers native windows is in development.